Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: E.P.A. Official To Quit

Published: October 14, 2004

The federal official overseeing the controversial cleanup and environmental testing of apartments near ground zero has submitted her resignation. In a letter dated Oct. 12, the official, Jane M. Kenny, said she would leave her job as the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2 administrator on Nov. 12 for a ''new opportunity,'' but was not more specific. Ms. Kenny, who was appointed to her post in 2001, has rejected claims that residents and workers were allowed to return to the area around ground zero too soon. She also oversaw the cleanup and testing of thousands of apartments in Lower Manhattan, some of which will have to be retested.